On the 4th anniversary of the start of the Egyptian Revolution, activist Shaimaa al-Sabbagh has been killed by regime forces firing their shotguns at a demonstration.
The group was moving toward Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the center of the 2011 uprising against President Hosni Mubarak, when it was attacked.
Sabbagh, a member of the Socialist Popular Alliance Party, had a five-year-old son.
Sabbagh chanting with the group, outside the Air France-KLM office in Talaat Harb Squaren near Tahrir. and after she was shot:
Images — reminiscent of the killing of Neda Agha Soltan by Iranian security forces amid mass protests in 2009 — of the mortally-wounded Sabbagh being carried away:
Marchers before and after they were charged by the police:
